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Paul McCartney Announces New Solo Album McCartney III

on October 21, 2020, 12:10pm

Paul McCartney will return on December 11th with McCartney III. TheĀ self-titled album arrives on the 50th anniversary of the former Beatles’ first solo album; like both McCartney I and its 1980 follow-up McCartney II, McCartney III is solo album in every sense, self-produced and recorded solely by McCartney, who plays every instrument.

ā€œPaul hadn’t planned to release an album in 2020, but in the isolation of ā€˜Rockdown,’ he soon found himself fleshing out some existing musical sketches and creating even more new ones,ā€ a press release explains. ā€œBefore long an eclectic collection of spontaneous songs would become McCartney III: a stripped back, self-produced and, quite literally, solo work marking the opening of a new decade, in the tradition of 1970’s McCartney and 1980’s McCartney II.ā€

ā€œI was living lockdown life on my farm with my family and I would go to my studio every day,ā€ adds McCartney in his own statement. ā€œI had to do a little bit of work on some film music and that turned into the opening track and then when it was done I thought what will I do next? I had some stuff I’d worked on over the years but sometimes time would run out and it would be left half-finished so I started thinking about what I had. Each day I’d start recording with the instrument I wrote the song on and then gradually layer it all up, it was a lot of fun. It was about making music for yourself rather than making music that has to do a job. So, I just did stuff I fancied doing. I had no idea this would end up as an album.ā€

A limited-edition vinyl pressing of McCartney III, created using using 33 recycled vinyl copies of McCartney I and McCartney II, is being released by Third Man Records.

McCartney III marks Macca’s 18th solo album to date and arrives a little more than two years after his previous LP, Egypt Station.

McCartney III Artwork:

McCartney III album artwork